New LED Device That Helps Users Explore the Mind and Relax Better

Two Austria-based scientists have invented an LED lamp known as Lucia No 3, that provides users deep relaxation, dream-like situation and various transcendental experiences. Lucia No 3 is a device that consists of a lamp surrounded by LEDs hanging from a pole structure, which is attached to a computer.

New LED Device That Helps Users Explore the Mind and Relax Better
23.03.2017
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Two Austria-based scientists have invented an LED lamp known as Lucia No 3, that provides users deep relaxation, dream-like situation and various transcendental experiences.

Scientists Dr Engelbert Winkler and Dr Dirk Proeckl first developed the Lucia hypnagogic light device while they were researching into near-death experiences and the realization of health and psychological benefits that often happen as a result of such experiences.

Lucia No 3 is a device that consists of a lamp surrounded by LEDs hanging from a pole structure, which is attached to a computer.

It is basically controlled by a dedicated software system that has the effect of inducing in the experiencer various states such as deep relaxation, meditative or dream-like states and various transcendental experiences.

It is increasingly used in therapeutic settings as well as in research environments relating to entheogenic or perceived near-death experiences. The device, in fact, was the result of Dr Proeckl and Dr Winkler’s studies on the benefits of light and the effects it has had on their psychotherapeutic and neurologic practices of human being.

The device works by affecting alpha brain waves and stimulating the pineal gland which is located in the center of the brain. The pineal gland, which is functionally and anatomically linked to other centres of the brain, reacts to both the intensity and rhythms of the light, triggering a visionary reaction in the person’s brain.

Lucia No 3 as a neurostimulator is capable of inducing experiences that can be compared to deep relaxation and meditative states, mystical experiences, simulations of the near-death or out-of-body experience and realities experienced under entheogenic substances such as DMT.

The researchers hit on the idea of simulating one of the key motifs of the experience – interaction with light—and developed Lucia as a means of stimulating the brain via an external stroboscopic light source. The resulting EEG brain-wave patterns and mental states have equivalents of the measured reactions of subjects who are meditation practitioners of many years experience.

Light Attendance GMBH in Austria is currently selling the lamps, and providing training who want to use the lamp. It also maintainswebspace for communication between the users.

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